Turned shoe.



F. A. BBAL.

TURNED SHOE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 16, 191s.

Patented May 19, 1914.

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llilllll l f1 FRANK A. REAL, OF HflVERI-HLL, MSSAGHUSETTS.

TURNER SHOE.

Application filed June 1G, 1918.

ib all whom it may concern Be it known that l, FRANK il. BnAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Haverhill county of Essex7 State ot Mass: chuttts, have invented an improvement in Turned Shoesj oi which the following' description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawingrepresenting like parts.

This invention relates to shoes and particularly to so-ealled turned shoes and .so-called lllchay 7 shoes and the object of the invention to provide a novel constrnction which pei'n'xits a turned or lllelay shoe to be readily tapp d when the sole becomes worn. l secure tl s object by splitting the sole of the shoe to malte a wear portion on the bottoni ol the solo and an upper portion which is separate troni the wear portion at the edges of the solo and to which the `opper is secured by stitches Vwhich entend through the upper portion only. 'W ith such a construction the wearingl away of the wear portion of the sole does not atleet the stitches which hold the upper to the sole and when snch wear portion has been completely worn away the shoe may still be tapped by sini pl), sewing' fresh sole or tap to the upper portion of the sole.

Although my invention is applicable to turned shoes it is equally applicable to so called McKay shoes. l have chosen herein to illnsorate it as it would be applied to turned shoes such as shown in iny former Patents llos. 88?',4l56 dated May l2, i908 and 899,501 dated Sept. 29, 1908. The shoe illustrated in said patents is what l have termed a turned Welt7 shoe and it coniprises a sole having a Welt sewed thereto and an upper which is sewed to the Welt, said upper being sewed to the Welt in the .first instance wrong side out, after which the shoe is turned as is usual in turned shoes. il shoe inade in accordance with said patents has all the appearance and inany of the advantages of a welt shoe but at the saine time it has the flexible quality of a turned shoe.

ln order to give a proper understandingl of the invention l have illustrated seine selected en'ibodiinents thereof which will now be described it being` understood that the invention is not confined to the illilstrated ornis thereof.

ln the drawings Figure l shows a shoe partly in section made in accordance With my invention. Figs. 52., 3 and 1l represent different steps in the process in n'ialiiin')i the Specification of Letters Patent.

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shoe. Fig. 5 is a cross sectional View sho\\'- ing the upper sewed to the solo betere the shoe is turned. Fig. G is a 'View similar to Fig. 5 showing the shoe tin-ned and the two portisiins oit the solo fastened together. Fie'. 7 is a View similar to lling. 5 showing` a di'l :tei-ent forni o'l2 the invention.

ln making' a turned welt shoe in accordance with .my invention lprovide a sole l and then split the solo at the cdgg'es so as to torni the welt-sniliporting portion 2 and the wear portion 3. rllhe sole may simply be split in troni the edges a short distance as shown in Fig. 7, or it may be split 'from one side to the other as shown in liigs. di, 5 and 6. ln either case this operation of splittine` the solo :thrills at the edge thereof a Weltsupporting portion 2 on the top oit the solo and a Wear portion 3 on the bottoni oi the sole. After the sole is thus split, the welt supporting and 'wear portions 2 and 3 are separated and a Welt -jiis applied to the top of the n'elt-supportingl portion 2 and sewod thereto by ineans of stitches 5. 'llhese stitches extend only through n'elt-supporting portion. fitter the Welt has thus been sewed to the solo, the upper G stitched to the welt Wronpn side ont as is ernnnionly done in turned shoes and as shown in .ligx 5, said upper being served to the welt by stitches 7. These stitches 7 may either cross or interlock with the stitches I: the-.t secure the welt to the sole or they may be free troni the stitches 5 as desired. hitL r the npper has thus been sewed 'to the welt, the shoe is turned right side ont as shown in Fig. (S, after which the two portions et the sole are united at the edge by stitches {i} which are shown as extending' through both portions Y oi the sole and through the welt as Well. These stitches 8 will i'ireterably be ot the loch-stitch type such as is used in the niannfacture of' so-ealled Welt shoes. The split edge of the sole l, the welt and the stitches 8 which unite the two portie `s oit the sole together and extend through the Welt, give the shoe in all essential particulars the appearance of a welt shoe but at the saine time the shoe is a turned shoe and has the desirable `flexible qualities ot a turnei'l shoe. ',lhe advantage of splittingi the sole to torni the separate welt-support ingr and Wear portions at the edge of the solo is that the stitches 5 which unite the welt to the sole do not extend through the bottoni ol the sole and therefore are not all'ected by the wearing away oit the wear portion 3 ot the sol ln making the shoe, l prefer to extend the slit at the edge hach to about the shank f the shoe Where the Welt ordinarily terminates, hut my invention is not liinited to any particular length ot slit.

l-.There the above construction is used the shoe may be Worn until the Wear portion or" the sole is entirely Worn away betere the stitches 5 are at all adected. lllhen the shoe is Worn to this point it may he readily tapped or resoled hy siinply cutting the Veer portion 3 troni the sole at the rear end ot the split as shon'n at l0 and then sewing a tap or new sole to the shoe by stitches Which extend through the Welt and Weltsupporting portion of the sole in exactlythe saine Way would he done in tapping a Welt shoe. lt will thus he seen that iny ini proved shoe has all the adrantages of a Welt shoe so tar as durability and facility of repair are concerned and yet it has all the adrantages which a turned shoe has in addition.

ln order to strengthen the stitches which l' unite the upper (5 to the Velt fr l will preterahly provino the solel l with a reinforcing lip ll which orerlies the inner face l2 ot the Welt and through which pass the stitches that unire the upper to the Welt. This reinforcing lip ll can he formed hy channeling the upper side ot the sole slightly and then turning up the channel portion to torni the lip, or it niay he torined ii any other suitable Way. l vwill also preferahl y provide the top the n elt e with a gro ye lf3 at the point where the stitches 7 extend 'through the upper side of the Welt. lllhere this construction is employed the stitches 'T will draw the upper down into the groore 13 somewhat a superior construction.

ing the line of stitching' The drawings show thc preferred i ments or niy invention hut l hare not attempted to illustrate all possihlc Ways whiieh the invention niight he einhodiec and, therefore, do not Wish to he limiter` constructional features shown.

rlie intention can also he applied to a turned shoe which does not hare a Welt iucorporated therein and inay he also einhodied in a so-called lvlclay shoey in hoth ot which cases the stitches which unite the upper to the sole would pass through the pa rt ot the sole correspmiding to the Welt- .ing portion in the accompanying drawing hut 'would not pass through the Wear portion.

fully described iny invent-ion, aiin as new and desire to secure by Lettefs `fatent is:

'urned shoe comprising a sole which as shown in llig. 5, thus inalring llurtherinore, this groove 13 acts as a guide for prop rly placi haring a groore secured to the. Welt Loenen is split at the edges to forno a Welt-supporting portion and a Wear portion, and a Welt sewed to the sole by stitches which extend through the Welt-supporting portion only, an upper stitched to the Welt and means securing together the Welt-supporting and wear port-ions ot the sole.

2. A turned shoe comprising a sole having as integral parts thereof a nf'ear p rtion and .velt-supporting portion which are sepaate Jtroni each other, av welt served to the sole. hy stitches Which extend through the .felt supporting portion only, an upper to the -Welt, and nieans extending u the Welt and hoth portions of the for securing thein together. A turned shoe comprising a sole which "de to 'the other and from e Y the shank portion 'there- 'E W lt-supporting portion and a secured to the Welts itched thro h L SL gether,

-. turned shoe comprising a sole which is split at the edges to lorin a Welt-supportrtion and a Wear portion, a Welt seWed sole hy siitches which extend through Welt-supporting portion only, said sole harin a reinforcing lip which overlies the inner edge of the Welt, an upper secured to the 'Welt hy stitches which extend through the upper, the 1welt and reinforcing lip, and ineaus connecting the Welt-supporting and Wear portions ot the sole.

i turned shoe comprising a sole which s split at the edges to torni a Welt-supportportion and a Wear portion, a Welt sewed le sole hy stitches which extend through e welt-supporting portion only, said Welt in t ie top thereof, an upper by stitches `which extend therethrough alone' the line of the groove and ineans for u the sole together at the edges.

sh e comprising sole which is split to torni a Wear portion and an upper portion, an upper, and means tor securing said rj A)er to the sole which includes stitches which extend through said upper portion only of the sole but do not ext-end through the Wear portion and stitches securing together the two portions of the sole arent the edge thereof. in testimony n'hereor", l hare signed niy v the two portions of Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner or atents,

Washington, D. G. 

